Letters

Allowing Sunday alcohol sales will
benefit county
This is a response to Myrtle Porter’s letter concerning her opposition to Sunday alcohol sales in the Dec. 28, 2011, edition of The Lancaster News.
Selling alcohol on Sundays in Lancaster County is not about Catholics or education or Congressman Mick Mulvaney. This is about jobs, income for Lancaster County from licensing and sales tax revenue for Lancaster County.

I want to thank Lancaster County Sheriff Office’s deputy Forrest Lawson and another unknown sheriff’s deputy for their help on Feb. 19. My dachshund was under the pool deck attached to an opossum and would not come out.
Buffie barked for one and one-half hour alarming the neighborhood. The sheriff’s deputies came and rescued Buffie and the opossum from under the deck. I thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart. You were such a godsend.

Since the beginning of our country, we have had a political system that has had its share of problems. Whether it was with race, age or sex, we have made it somewhat of a habit to exclude voters in the past.
We have also had various fights about what exactly defines a voter, and how old one must be to vote. Since 1971, people gain their enfranchisement at the age of 18, and since then, younger voters have often misused this power.

I can understand letter writer and nurse Maureen Pizzo’s concerns about health care, being as close to it as she is. However I have to disagree with her on Obamacare. We do not need more than 2,600 pages and the hiring of thousands of costly new future pensioned bureaucrats and IRS agents to improve health care. Hundreds of pages of this bill have nothing to do with health care and everything to do with another government takeover. One article I read highlighted that Romneycare is just 70 pages.

Does Maureen Pizzo, who wrote “Letter to U.S. Rep. Mulvaney on birth control compromise” in last week’s paper, really believe “The employer is not even involved” as a result of this compromise?
Does she really think the insurance companies are going to provide free contraceptives out of the goodness of their hearts?
The “compromise” is merely a shell game that will still result in religious employers paying for contraceptives as the insurance companies will ultimately pass the costs on to them.

To all parents – young and old – our children should be our priority. Parents should not do things we don’t want our children to do. Put God first in our lives, then our children.
We shouldn’t be eating out and going on shopping sprees, while our children sit at home hungry and wearing hand-me-down clothes.
Patricia Thompson
Lancaster

In response to Maureen Pizzo’s letter in last week’s paper, I realize people cannot always get health care.
However, what about Planned Parenthood, where I believe contraceptives and morning-after pills were always available free?
President Barack Obama wants to enforce his decision of Catholic institutions being forced to cover these contraceptives when it is against the precepts we believe.

As I look back throughout my 75 years on earth, what a drastic change I have experienced. In my early years, Dick Tracy was one of my favorite cartoon characters. He had a television and telephone on his wrist. At that time, we didn’t even have a TV in our house, but there was one in the window at the corner store. It was a 12-inch model.